DIGITAL VIDEO AND TV TECHNOLOGY NEWS
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- Apple TV could help Netflix growth
(Reuters)
Reuters - Shares in Netflix Inc neared their all-time high on Thursday, after Apple Inc said that the company's streaming video service would be added to a new version of Apple TV.
- AOL renews search deal with Google
(AFP)
AFP - Google will power Internet search across AOL properties and AOL video will appear on YouTube under an agreement reached on Thursday between the Web companies.
- Google to Power AOL Search for the Next 5 Years
(Mashable)
Mashable - Google and AOL have signed a deal that extends the search and advertising partnership between the two companies for another five years. The agreement also includes mobile search and adds a content sharing partnership with YouTube.
- Samsung HMX-T10 Camcorder: Full HD with Comfort-Tilted Lens
(Digital Trends)
Digital Trends - Samsung Digital Imaging has announced its new HMX-T10 high-definition camcorder, which aims to put high-definition video shooting comfortably in consumers’ hands: the camcorder’s lens features a 20-degree tile so users can hold the unit more naturally while shooting video.
- Google and AOL Ink Five-Year Search Deal
(Digital Trends)
Digital Trends - Internet giant Google and struggling online portal AOL have announced a new five-year deal that will see Google continue to provide search results for AOL’s network of content and services; however, the new deal will be expanded to include mobile search capabilities and YouTube.
- New Apple TV: Living Room as Tech Battleground
(PC World)
PC World - Todayâs unveiling of a smaller, cheaper Apple TV set-top box is the latest in a long line of tech industry efforts to conquer the living room. Recent reports and rumors have Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Sony all developing low-cost entertainment devices that would stream entertainment bitsâmovies, TV shows, music, photos, and so onâfrom the Internet to your HDTV.
- Apple Seeks Its First Apple TV Success With New $99 Device, 99-Cent Rentals
(Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - Apple (NMS:AAPL) — after big success with computers, phones and music players — is taking another swing at its hobby, the tough-to-crack market for providing streaming video content to TVs.
- Panasonic Unveils 3D Camcorder, Blu-ray Home Theater Systems
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Panasonic on Wednesday unveiled a new consumer-friendly 3D camcorder, and two new Blu-ray home theater systems.
- Sony Unveils Cloud-Based Qriocity Music Service for PS3, HDTVs
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Sony on Wednesday announced an unlimited, cloud-based music service that will initially be accessible via PlayStation gaming consoles and other Web-connected devices.
- Gmail Glitch Plays Music Upon Sign-In for Some Chrome Users
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - A glitch with a YouTube video intended to notify users about Google's new Priority Inbox feature has resulted in some unwanted Gmail background music.
- Video of Puppies Thrown into River Spark Outcry and Sleuthing
(PC World)
PC World - A disturbing YouTube video showing a young woman throwing puppies into a river has sparked cries of outrage among Internet users with many vowing to hunt her down.
- Netgear Announces NeoTV HD Media Players
(Digital Trends)
Digital Trends - Networking gear maker Netgear is aiming to tap into all the digital media content folks have stashed on computers and devices around their homes and bring it to the living room HDTV with its new NeoTV 350 HD and NeoTV 550 Ultimate HD media players. The devices are designed to easily enable people to tap into movies, photos, and music on their personal digital media collections via a home network, and bring them out to the the HDTV and home theater system with no muss or fuss. Plus, the units support a wide range of codecs and file formats, and sport USB media and have media card inputs for bringing media directly to the HDTV.
- Hands On: Bloggie Touch, Sony's New Pocket HD Camcorder
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Sony on Wednesday announced the Bloggie Touch, its first pocket HD Camcorder to feature a touchscreen.
- New Xbox 360 Controller on the Way
(Digital Trends)
Digital Trends - Today on YouTube, Larry âMajor Nelsonâ Hyrb unveiled a new Xbox 360 controller, due out later this year. It isnât exactly a radical change, but there are a few tweaks that should be for the better.
- 'Bed Intruder' songster turning fame into a future
(AP)
AP - Antoine Dodson's angry, head-shaking TV interview about an attempted rape against his younger sister in her bed has turned into a chart-topping iTunes song and YouTube hit and made the 24-year-old Alabama college student an Internet sensation.
- YouTube lets advertisers sidestep some videos
(AFP)
AFP - YouTube on Monday began letting advertisers pinpoint videos to which they do not want to be associated.
- 4 Reasons Why Pay-Per-View YouTube is a Hard Sell
(PC World)
PC World - Earlier this year Google started offering online rentals of Sundance Film Festival movies. It bombed. According to the New York Times, Google made a paltry $10,709.16 from its $3.99 rental service over the course of 10 days, and the videos only garnered a combined 2,684 views. Perhaps the content was too niche for a broad audience, but those are still some mortifying numbers.
- Google reportedly courts Hollywood for (more) YouTube movie rentals
(Ben Patterson)
Ben Patterson - Google has been dabbling in streaming movie rentals for months now, but word has it that the search giant wants to plunge into the pay-per-view market head-first. Hollywood, meet YouTube.
- Report: Google Prepping Pay-Per-View Streaming Movie Service
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Google is reportedly in talks with Hollywood studios to launch a pay-per-view streaming movie service on YouTube by year's end.
- Malay rapper faces sedition charge over YouTube clip
(AFP)
AFP - A Malaysian rapper is being investigated for sedition, police said Monday, after posting a YouTube video which drew allegations he was stirring up ethnic tensions in the multicultural nation.